<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119037" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Maid's Defense</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T were little to renounce what now I hold,<br>Such riches as make poor: a pomp that tires,<br>A vernal glow that kindles autumn fires,<br>A youth that, wasteful in its haste, grows old;<br>'T were little to relinquish pleasure doled<br>In meagre measure to my swift desires,<br>To give what nor delights me nor inspires,<br>In free exchange for Love's all-prizèd gold;<br>Yet there is something it were pain to yield,<br>Which I should part with, Love, in welcoming thee:<br>A shy uncertainty that dearer seems<br>Than e'en thy gifts, and is my fence and shield:<br>The dim ideal of my waking dreams,<br>The Love unknown, that distant, beckons me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119037" data-title="A Maid's Defense de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="'T were little to renounce what now I hold,/Such riches as make poor: a pomp that tires,/A vernal glow that kindles autumn fires,/A youth that, wasteful in its haste, grows old;/'T were little to relinquish pleasure doled/In meagre measure to my s..."></div> </div> </div>

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